The alternative rehabilitation plan for the L train being championed by Governor Cuomo, which would not require the 15-month shutdown originally planned, will also mean additional work for members of Transport Workers Union Local 100, according to union officials and Andy Byford, the CEO of New York City Transit.
“Our forces will be much more heavily engaged where previously the contractor was pretty much doing all the work in and around the tunnel,” Mr. Byford said in a phone interview. He said that before he gave his sign-off on the Governor’s proposal, he would be doing his own “due diligence” by commissioning an independent panel of engineering experts to review it.
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